18 Months!

I CANNOT believe that Brayden is already 18 months old! Everyday he is changing and growing and I can hardly keep up with him! He has started to run everywhere. The other day we picked him up from the daycare at the gym and he full on ran towards us. He can get to anything he wants, including things he should not be near.

The biggest change in Brayden is that he can talk. He can say enough for us to understand what he wants/needs.
~He can name and point to all of his body parts.
~He can also say most of the food that we give him (meat, cheese, nunu (nodles), milk, juice, water, cup, more, poon).
~He can also identify many everyday things that he sees (pup pup, kitty, duck, fishie (can make the noise of all of these) birdie, car, bus, truck, garbage truck, highchair, bath, mimi (blanket) poopy (while holding his butt) hockey, football, shirt, shoe (shoe on and shoe off while they are either on or off depending) sock (sock on and sock off), keys, help, up (to be picked up), walk, light, mountain (mou pin), coffee (maybe I should cut back?).
~He also has a slew of other words that he can say and use correctly such as; uh oh, oh no, I don't know, all gone (agone) gama (grandma), mommy, daddy, stinky, yes and no (shaking his head too), hello, bye bye, hungry (hun gee), please, hand (for us to hold his hand), night (nuh nite), Cody(a kid at daycare), nae (Renae, his daycare lady), Sandy (another daycare lady), Elmo, out (to get out of his car seat when we get home)
~He will repeat anything you ask him to

Other things that Brayden does:
~He also knows the Jaws theme and when he wants to chase you, he will start singing it and come after you
~If you are tickling him he will say uncle to get you to stop
~If 2 people are holding his hands, he will count to three (usually it goes two, tree) and then go limp in hopes that you will swing him
~He stands on may surfaces and also counts to three before jumping off of them
~He can climb into his own highchair
~He can take off his own diaper
~He is a super big help, he will put things in the garbage for us, put his clothes away if we ask him too and pick up his toys (sometimes)
~He loves to read books and turn the pages. If we are not reading to him, he will babble away to himself.
~He can correctly identify people in pictures (Mom, dad, Grandmas, Jenna, Grandpa and himself)
~He absolutely loves Elmo, fishies, pup pups and choo choos.
~He is Dad's little buddy, but he loves to follow me around and be where I am

He is the sweetest little boy and we love him to pieces. I wish I could keep him at this age forever (minus the teething because all 4 eye teeth are coming in). We could not have gotten a better kid! Hopefully you all love hearing about him as much as we like talking about him.